LambayequeViolence stayed extremely rare through catastrophic El Niño floods.
Archaeologists study past disasters to learn how societies might react to climate change.
A new survey of the valley tested whether sacrifices reflected violence driven by resource scarcity, and found little.
Mass ritual sacrifices on the desert coast of Peru have been linked to El Niño flooding.
How each outlet framed it
- Phys.org
- uses a Lambayeque Valley survey to show that ritual sacrifices during El Niño floods did not come with widespread violence
Sources: Phys.org